I was Dr. Hughes's patient for 30 years, and I am also in the medical profession, yet when I was pleading with him that something was not going right in my body last year, he completed disregarded my pleas. After five months of begging him for assistance I ended up with major abdominal surgery and almost died. He never once came to visit or called while I was hospitalized. He has outlived the intent of the Hippocratic oath that he swore to uphold. I hope I was the only patient he disregarded.